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materials science (AD); material engineering (daring); materiology; study of commercial materials; materials science and engineering (The interdisciplinary field of materials science, also commonly termed materials science and engineering is the design and discovery of new materials, particularly solids. The intellectual origins of materials science stem from the Enlightenment, when researchers began to use analytical thinking from chemistry, physics, and engineering to understand ancient, phenomenological observations in metallurgy and mineralogy. WK Alexander Demidov); materials science |
